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Students reflect on what they have learned and experienced through the lesson and share their reflections with the class.

Students will reflect on people’s relationship with trees and explore resources for engaging in citizen science related to tree stewardship.

Students design and action plan to care for or plant trees on school or community grounds, or to educate others about the care of trees.

In Part 2, students learn about the specific species’ of trees on their school or a community property and explore the threats these trees face.

In Part 1, students explore the many benefits that trees offer humans and the environment.

This lesson sets the stage for students to develop sustainable intelligence. They begin by playing an interactive game that illustrates how innocent actions can turn into unsustainable practices that impact everyone and the Earth we call home. Students then discuss how the game illustrates a concept called the tragedy of the commons. Next, they watch a video and discuss the concept of sustainability. Together, the elements of this lesson help students create a base of understanding from which they can begin to exercise sustainability thinking as they analyze and explore a range of topics and apply what they learn in their everyday lives.

This lesson sets the stage for students to develop sustainable intelligence. They begin by playing an interactive game that illustrates how innocent actions can turn into unsustainable practices that impact everyone and the Earth we call home. Students then watch a video and learn what the term sustainability means and begin exploring specific sustainable and unsustainable things they do at school and at home.

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